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40 of the best book quotes about individuality

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“May you recognize in your life the presence, power, and light of your soul. May you realize that you are never alone, that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe. May you have respect for your own individuality and difference. ”

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“Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonor. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve–slowing, slowing, and stalling once more–was no ordinary bird.”

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Letters to a Young Poet

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“So, #GIRLBOSS, if you suck at school, don’t let it kill your spirit. It does not mean that you are stupid or worthless, or that you are never going to succeed at anything. It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, you’re going to kill it.”

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“The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.”

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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“I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps, from the hour I was born.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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“We do not believe our own thought; we must serve somebody; we must quote somebody; we dote on the old and the distant; we are tickled by great names; we import the religion of other nations; we quote their opinions; we cite their laws.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Society and Solitude

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“Call me however what thou wilt—I am who I must be. I call myself Zarathustra.”

Friedrich Nietszche

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

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“A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower-in-waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It’s a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that’s you.”

Christopher Paul Curtis

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“‘Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.’”

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“‘He’s a gentleman.’ There aren’t many people who would say this about me, but the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”

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All the Bright Places

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“You your best thing, Sethe. You are.”

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“Some walks you have to take alone.”

Suzanne Collins

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The Hunger Games

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“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.”

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Equality 7-2521

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“I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place.”

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“the universe took its time on you crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct from everyone else so when you doubt how you were created you doubt an energy greater than us both”

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The Sun and Her Flowers

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“What is unique about the ‘I’ hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual ‘I’ is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.”

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“At the end, we are all the same, just a body with only our actions and others’ memories to define who we are.”

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The Storyteller's Secret

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we are all the same

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“There was once a bird who wanted to fly alone - away from the others. He was worried if he followed the group he would never find his own place.”

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The Storyteller's Secret

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“If you simply kept your eyes open, it seemed, you just might find something valuable in the most unlikely of places. The trick was to recognize a good thing when you saw it, no matter how odd or worthless it might at first appear, no matter who else might just walk away and leave it behind.”

Daniel James Brown

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The Boys in the Boat

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

Charles Dickens

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A Tale of Two Cities

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“Respect is not fear and awe; it denotes, in accordance with the root of the word (respicere = to look at), the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his individuality and uniqueness.”

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“The unavoidable conclusion seems to be that when the individual faces torture or annihilation, he cannot rely on the resources of his own individuality. His only source of strength is in not being himself but part of something mighty, glorious, and indestructible.”

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The True Believer

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“Great marriages cannot be constructed by individuals who are terrified by their basic aloneness, as so commonly is the case, and seek a merging in marriage. Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually seeks to cultivate it, even at the risk of separation or loss.”

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The Road Less Traveled

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“The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.”

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The Road Less Traveled

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“Yes, a bottle of wine was the ultimate distillation of time and place; a poetic expression of individuality itself. Yet here it was, cast back into the sea of anonymity, that realm of averages and unknowns.”

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A Gentleman in Moscow

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“Well, life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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“Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”

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Miss Mary Crawford

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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.”

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“He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum”

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Randle McMurphy

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“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school. In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was . . .”

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Stargirl (Susan Caraway)

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“Ironically, as we discovered and distinguished ourselves, a new collective came into being—a vitality, a presence, a spirit that had not been there before.”

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“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”

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Stargirl (Susan Caraway)

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“So I . . . watched the once amorphous student body separate itself into hundreds of individuals. The pronoun ‘we’ itself seemed to crack and drift apart into pieces.”

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“Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus’ touch. We experience his care.”

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Christian Living

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“She dreamed of a state involving very little in the way of individual consciousness.”

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“Our individuality is all, all, that we have.”

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Jitterbug Perfume

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“Most people think of themselves as individuals, that there’s no one on the planet like them. This thought motivates them to get out of bed, eat food and walk around like nothing’s wrong. My name is Oliver Tate.”

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“He thought: How difficult is it to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.”

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“He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.”

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Postcards from No Man's Land

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